SpaceUnited

10/20/2015

SpaceUnited closed its doors today.

http://spaceunited.org/closing-letter/

Hello, My name is Troy Dunn and I was the President of SpaceUnited. Our mission was to improve lives through space exploration. Assisted entirely by volunteers, we were able to help humanitarian or…

07/28/2015

Love using space tech to make the world a better place? Checkout Tomnod!

The DigitalGlobe Human Geography team maintains a database of millions of points of interest around the world. Help validate data from external sources and let our analysts know if the points are good, bad or need adjustment. This is a small piece of what our Human Geography team does -your contribu…

07/23/2015

Exciting news for future explorers!

Its sun is of similar size and brightness to our own, but much older.

07/01/2015

Advancements in space technologies are helping to double the lifespan of some patients!

06/25/2015

We did it! Thanks to your help, SpaceUnited has connected multiple charities with satellite imagery. Learn how your donations have helped around the world!

http://spaceunited.org/update-saving-lives-with-satellites/

05/08/2015

Space exploration saves lives.

A couple years ago, NASA and DHS unveiled a portable radar unit based on technology used to detect alien life on distant exoplanets. This radar unit, though, would be used closer to home—to find people burried under rubble. In the first real-world demonstration of its use, the device helped save 4 m…

04/27/2015

How you can help from home.

Help disaster response teams by mapping damage from the recent deadly 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit Kathmandu, Nepal. Start by comparing before and after imagery and placing a tag in the center of every damaged building and damaged/blocked road you find.

04/27/2015

"...researchers found that some of the beams of light were moving faster than the speed of light constant..."

Forget blowing bubbles, NASA may be on the path to discovering warp bubbles that will open up every corner of the universe for human exploration. We have broken the speed of sound, but now NASA scientists are tentatively announcing they may have broken the speed of light.

04/24/2015

What an amazing tool this telescope has been! Happy Anniversary Hubble!

25 Years of the Hubble Space Telescope

03/20/2015

The Mars rover Curiosity accidentally discovers that Martian soil contains 2% water! Here's the full story from Space.com: http://ow.ly/KAxCj

03/19/2015

Asteroid hunting in your PJ's? Sounds good.

A new asteroid-hunting computer program will help amateur astronomers and citizen scientists identify potentially hazardous space rocks faster and more accurately, NASA officials say.

03/06/2015

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― André Gide

NASA has discovered another Earth-like planet orbiting a nearby star within the habitable zone using the Kepler Space Telescope.